FBL3500: Business Project Proposal

FBL3500: Business Project Proposal
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Your Project Proposal should be structured using the defined sub-sections below. It should be written in formal, Business English and should not exceed a total count of 1000 words.
The Project Proposal should be created in Word using the format and sub-headings provided below. The plan is submitted on Blackboard, please see details at the end of this document.
This Project Proposal must be submitted for marking by the date and time provided in the Unit Plan.
It is a requirement that this Project Proposal is shared with your workplace supervisor. This can be done by email or face-to-face meeting (whatever is appropriate) and is important to ensure your expectations of your project are aligned with that of your host organisation.
Brief for Project Proposal:
1. What are the project outcomes? (Guide: 200 words)
Please provide a number of clearly defined and measureable outcomes expected of your project. Please ensure these align with the format described in the following section entitled Format and guidelines for Project Proposal. Provide additional paragraphs with details on each outcome as required.
2. What is the timeline for your project? (Guide: 100 words)
Please outline, using words or a visual representation, how your project outcomes are realistic and achievable in the given timeframe.
3. What strategies will you use to achieve the project outcomes? (Guide: 300 words)
For each outcome, outline the strategies you plan to use.
How do you plan to achieve the defined outcomes for the projects?
Do you anticipate any of the strategies to be particularly challenging?
Which non-technical skills will be used in completing the project outcomes?
4. What are your performance indicators and evidence of mastery? (Guide: 250 words)
What are the deliverables or indicators of performance?
How will you know when you have achieved your defined outcomes?
What evidence could you collect to demonstrate your achievement?
5. How do you plan to network with other professionals to assist you with completing the project and in what ways do you think this will help? (Guide: 150 words)
**Please note that if your major is Project Management, one of your outcomes should be ‘To successfully apply project management principles to the completion of the work-based project’ (or similar).
a) Project outcomes
Project outcomes will most likely to relate to your ability to complete or do something
during your internship which is relevant to your degree studies. Outcomes should define
what you will achieve during your internship period. Examples might be:
Compare and evaluate current induction processes for new graduates across the
organisation.
Develop a current asset register for the organisation.
b) Strategies
This concerns the strategies you will adopt during the internship to achieve your defined
project outcomes. Make sure these strategies are realistic in terms of the available
timeframe, resources and your own capabilities.
c) Deliverables or performance indicators?
Your deliverables are tangible and measurable things that will indicate if you have met your
outcomes. They might include a policy, strategy or system you have developed, or an
event you have organised. It will be what you deliver to your host organisation – in the form
of an oral presentation and final report, upon completing your internship.
Please ensure you discuss the content of your report and oral presentation with your host
supervisor as this will be shared with your academic mentor/Unit Coordinator and may
raise concerns with sensitive data or breaching of confidentiality agreements.